Tweet A new service delivery model of the cloud, called Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), fills the gap that exists in the current cloud delivery models and offers a higher level of abstraction than Platform as a Service (PaaS). With MBaaS, mobile developers can consume cloud services in a way better suited to mobile-application scenarios. Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial….

Tweet Creating mobile apps is an art, say the execs at London-based backend-as-a-service (BaaS) startup Cloudbase.io, which wants to provide a canvas for the world’s inspired — or uninspired — app developers. “People’s creative ideas for apps will be able to grow exponentially” with an accessible and low-cost backend, says Cloudbase.io VP of Sales Andrew Buchanan, who talk about providing the tools for mobile app artists at our Structure:Europe conference…

Tweet Amid the bluster of all the web can do, there is the most important thing: Web forces choice. I’m not talking about “users” (that term oddly favored in illegal drugs and online services). Users have cheap and easy options from every corner of the web. I’m talking about the companies that create those web experiences. For companies, choices are expensive and difficult: like which data to surface, which business…

Tweet In light of the photo wars going on among social media companies of late, it’s not surprising that back-end engineering is just as important as pretty filters. A Twitter engineer announced Tuesday that the company has built its own back-end storage system for photos, replacing previous partner Photobucket, which had housed the photos. In a lengthy blog post explaining its own new product (strangely named Blobstore), Twitter explained how it…